Pheno & Vino Seminar | Jack Setford, Toronto | "Signatures of Mirror Stars" | Jadwin 303

Date
Nov 19, 2019, 4:00 pm4:00 pm
Location
Jadwin 303

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Event Description

Motivated by theories of neutral naturalness, I will argue that Mirror Stars are a generic possibility in any hidden sector with analogues of Standard Model electromagnetism and nuclear physics. I will show that if there exists a tiny kinetic mixing between the dark and SM photon, Mirror Stars capture SM matter from the interstellar medium, which accumulates in the Mirror Star core. This leads to a spectacular and distinctive signature that could be discovered in optical and X-ray searches.